A rockstar named Roku Itakagi has been missing for the past few days. A young boy named Takumi Hashiratani claims that on New Year's Day, he witnessed a man carrying Itakagi in a bag and throwing him over a bridge. Takumi claims that the man had a dark car, a nail on arm, and that he saw a giant glowing hammer in the background. Kogoro is skeptical at first but realizes Takumi is telling the truth when the news confirms that the body of Itakagi was found in a bag floating in a river.

Murder

Location:

Teimuzu river

Victim:

Roku Itakagi

Age:

22 years old

Cause of death:

Blunt force trauma

Suspects:

Kiritani, Yasui, and Kannai

The News Report Look near by River is a Deadbody in a Bag Floating

From Takumi's testimony, Kogoro, Ran, Conan, and Eisuke search for the bridge where the body was thrown over.

While investigating, they learn that Itakagi's band logo was of a snake with nails piercing through it. After questioning a tattooist, they learn that the tattoo was new and only three people have gotten it. After further investigation, they are able to deduce the tattoo is on the driver's right arm due to the traffic flow on the bridge and that the only way Takumi could have seen his arm is if the steering wheel was on the right side of the car. They realize that advertisement combined with lights from a building created the silhouette of an upside down hammer; Using this knowledge, they are able to pinpoint where the culprit threw the body off from the bridge.

Through the process of elimination, the culprit is revealed to be a man named Kiritani. After the authorities arrest Kiritani, Eisuke attempts to question Kogoro about Rena causing Conan to realize he is in fact searching for her.

Eisuke asks Kogoro to investigate a mystery and believes that the crime is related to The Red-Headed League; Eisuke reveals that a man is paid a lot of money to switch the garbage from the neighborhood waste collection with the garbage from the previous garbage day. Kogoro takes Ran, Conan, and Eisuke with him to investigate the neighborhood. They run into Takagi who explains that a woman named Kaneyo Funemoto was recently murdered in the neighborhood after being shot in the back of her head while at home.

The group encounters a murder during an investigation of the secret part-time job which is near where Rena Mizunashi crashed. Furthermore, the boy who is the victim's son says that the murderer is a foreign woman dressed in black, Vermouth!

Her son, Toji Funemoto, says that a strange foreign woman questioned him about an accident he witnessed and believes she murdered his mother. Conan realizes the woman is Vermouth and that the Black Organization must now know that Rena Mizunashi is currently hospitalized in a coma.

After a thorough investigation, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and reveals the culprit to be Kaneyo's wheelchair-bound husband, Tatsuhito Funemoto. Conan reveals that Tatsuhito had Kaneyo look outside by telling her there was a shooting star and shot her. He then falsified a robbery by hiding her pearl necklace by using them as Setsubun beans and having his maid vacuum them. Conan explains that the garbage scheme was so Tatsuhito could receive the vacuum bag later and pawn the pearls. As proof for the murder, Conan reveals that an onion was on the handle of his wheelchair which he got from the kitchen rubber glove; Conan reveals that the fingerprints and gunpowder on the glove will convict him for murder. Tatsuhito confesses and reveals his wife was obsessively spending money sponsoring parties and that she planned to place a second mortgage on the house and then divorce him to leave him with the debt. But what he couldn't take most is that she wanted to abandon Toji. The police and Tatsuhito decide to preserve Toji's innocence by telling him that his father is going away for a while.

The manga chapter ends with Conan finding out that Vermouth met Toji when he deduces that (Uuma, Uuma) Toji heard was the last part of Vermouth famous quote "A secret makes a Woman, Woman." while the anime episode ends with Gin remembering what the rat's name was Hondu.